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Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Hello everyone!Version 0.3.8 of Newlife is finished and I've released it on Patreon. Early-access Patrons can find it in the creations section here. The changelog is below.That also means that the 0.3.7 release has been made public. I've updated the links here on the blog, so you can download it now from here. The 0.3.7 changelog is here.As usual, saved files & templates from older versions probably won't work with newer ones. For new players - just use one of the links to the right to get either the jar or the exe version. You only need one or the other - not both. I recommend trying the jar first.For either version you'll need to have Java installed. A lot of programs use Java so you might well already have it. If the jar shows up as an unrecognised file type, then you probably don't. In that case you can get it from http://www.java.com/. The exe should tell you if you don't have the right version on your computer, but you'll still need to install java to run the game.There's a guide for new players here which includes some troubleshooting tips for installation & downloading.Here's the full changelog for 0.3.8:

Fixes
to text issues. Thanks to Cubano, Ignis, Death25, Souldead341, The
Observer and Nonono222 for reporting problems they found.

Changed
the scene description for the doggy scene to solve a problem
reported by Cubano where condom-specific text could never appear
because they get removed at the end of orgasm processing.

Added
a new possibility for the male orgasm text in the cowgirl sex scene
which can trigger for romantic girls in some situations.

Following
a forum post by gravifan89, added new cheat options to start with
higher skill levels.

Neither
you nor the man now has access to condoms in the shower. The
relevant actions are disabled for shower makeouts.

Restricted
the men's ability to get back on top of you after you straddle them.
This is now blocked the same turn you've taken the “straddle”
action or any of the other actions that lead directly to cowgirl
sex.

Following
a suggestion by Cubano, modified what the player says when she asks
a guy to pull out if she's pregnant or on the pill. Also added a new
category for her reaction when he lies or fails to pull out where
she's more inclined to forgive him in that situation. “Safe days”
are not included in either of those situations, as they still aren't
100% safe. However, forgetful or unusual body chemistry girls on the
pill are included as the pc herself is assumed not to be aware that
she isn't fully protected.

Fixed
a problem with the porn movie scene reported by Kao Rock where some
gender-bender text was being shown for female-start characters and
added some alternative text for them.

Added
an short alternative branch to the “trying on sexy outfits” path
of the shopping befriend scene. This has fairly specific
requirements so it won't show up very often, but I think it'll be a
fun one when it does.

Fixed
a bug reported by Cubano that caused problems if the
treasure-hunting event triggered when the player had been
treasure-hunting before and has no boyfriend.

Also
fixed a bug I found while fixing the above bug where the
treasure-hunting event couldn't trigger if the treasure-hunter was
your boyfriend, even if you'd had the event with him before when he
was just a friend.

Monday, 13 July 2015

Hello everyone!The doggy-style sex scene is finally ready for release, after countless delays. There's still work to be done around improving the path to it from the makeout scenes, but the sex scene itself is done and I hope you'll enjoy it.Version 0.3.7 of Newlife is finished and I've released it on Patreon. Early-access Patrons can find it in the creations section here. The changelog is below.That also means that the 0.3.6 release has been made public. I've updated the links here on the blog, so you can download it now from here. The 0.3.6 changelog is here.As usual, saved files & templates from older versions probably won't work with newer ones. For new players - just use one of the links to the right to get either the jar or the exe version. You only need one or the other - not both. I recommend trying the jar first.For either version you'll need to have Java installed. A lot of programs use Java so you might well already have it. If the jar shows up as an unrecognised file type, then you probably don't. In that case you can get it from http://www.java.com/. The exe should tell you if you don't have the right version on your computer, but you'll still need to install java to run the game.There's a guide for new players here which includes some troubleshooting tips for installation & downloading.Here's the full changelog for 0.3.7:

Fixed
the player's arousal increase for feeling her breasts during cowgirl
sex being too high if she had the sensitive breasts trait.

Some
other small modifications to a few sex actions, usually to take into
account preference information that wasn't being checked.

Fixed
a bug where encouraging the pervy client multiple times could have
unintended effects on the actions he chose.

If
you've had sex with the pervy client, then he'll always count as
being “encouraged” in any future scenes – unless you've also
beaten him up at some point. Due to limitations in the information
that the game tracks, this only applies to penetrative sex, not
oral.

Following
a bug report by OrangeJuice, modified the treasure hunting event so
there's only one npc this can happen with in each game. The initial
conditions are the same as before, with multiple npcs who could join
for for it, but once the scene has happened once then any future
occurrences will always have the same man. This prevents various odd
or nonsensical storyline problems. The probability of the event
firing will normally be unchanged, but it will become unavailable if
it happens once and then you unfriend the npc or let your
relationship with him drop.

The
treasure-hunting scene can now trigger with your boyfriend, as long
as you've been treasure-hunting with him before. It won't happen for
the first time the event fires though – I guess treasure-hunting
is something he does to get some “me time” and he doesn't want
his girlfriend along unless you already have that sort of
partnership.

Mums
can now play with their existing baby while waiting for the results
of a pregnancy test.

Fixed
an issue reported by Cubano where breakfast choices didn't depend on
owning cooking gear. You now need to have bought this to serve any
breakfast that requires cooking (i.e. the full English and porridge
choices).

Ambitious
characters no longer get the increased stress from working once
they've reached a top-level job in their career – currently just
“elite saleswoman”. Top-level jobs have an extra line in their
description explaining this, so it should be obvious which ones they
are when the promotion is available.

The
makeout 'push him away' type actions are no longer automatically
disabled when you get close to orgasm, but now require a willpower
check instead. For an average willpower character, this means
they'll tend to become unavailable earlier than before.

Men
can no longer initiate sex or move to an more intense makeout
position the same turn that you've taken one of the opposite actions
(e.g. “push him away”, “move his cock away”).

Added
the doggy-style sex scene, which can be initiated from the
lying-down makeout by either you or your partner. At the moment the
actions that get you on your hands & knees immediately start
sex. This will change in future updates once a parallel set of
makeout actions have been written and hands & knees can be made
into a separate sub-position similar to when your character is on
top.

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Hello everyone!While answering a post on the tfgamessite forums, I decided to explain a bit about how Newlife's impregnation mechanics work. Instead of putting it in my forum message, I'm going to post here so people from other sites can read it too.If you prefer not to know how the game mechanics work, then look away now!Okay, so, Newlife and impregnation:The obvious solution for impregnation would be to check each time you have unsafe sex. That's what happened early in pre-release versions but it ran into problems when the game was improved to allow sex multiple times a week.With that system, even if you aren't especially fertile in a given week, your chance of getting pregnant skyrockets if you have sex a lot. Alternatively, if I limited the code to one check, then your chance of getting pregnant is normal but whoever you sleep with first will always end up being the father.As a result, I completely rewrote how it works. Here's what it does now:When you have sex with a man, and he comes in a way that's unsafe, then the game stores that you've been inseminated, who by, and any modifiers. For example, if he comes outside but some gets in a dangerous place then it's not as risky as if he finishes deep inside you.If you have sex several times, then each of those gets stored, even if it's the same man as an earlier time.Impregnation is then calculated right at the end of the week, just before showing the week planner screen for the next one. First the game checks if you're already pregnant or if you're protected by the pill. There's just one check for the week, not one for each individual insemination. Being on the pill normally guarantees safety, but the Forgetful (10%) and Unusual Body Chemistry (50%) traits add failure chances. Having this check at the end of the week is the reason why the pill you get in-game is described as having a slight morning-after effect. If you go on the pill by visiting the doctor, then you'll be protected for that week even if you had sex before the doctor visit.If you aren't protected by the pill, then the game picks a random number. This is stored and the same one is used to process each insemination. That way we avoid the problem where multiple shags makes your pregnancy risk so high its silly.Next, the game starts checking your inseminations in a random order. The risk is calculated based on your cycle, the insemination modifier, the man's fertility modifiers and any fertility bonuses that you have. This is compared to the random number chosen earlier.If you get pregnant then the other inseminations aren't checked and that man gets to be the daddy. Otherwise, the game moves onto the next one and adds a small cumulative modifier to the risk. This means that having sex many times in a week will increase your risk of pregnancy and each additional time makes it a bit more risky, but the effect is generally much smaller than if impregnation was checked independently each time you had sex.Well, I hope that was interesting for you. Now get out there and make some babies!

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Hello everyone!Version 0.3.6 of Newlife is finished and I've released it on Patreon. Early-access Patrons can find it in the creations section here. The changelog is below.That also means that the 0.3.5 release has been made public. I've updated the links here on the blog, so you can download it now from here. The 0.3.5 changelog is here.As usual, saved files & templates from older versions probably won't work with newer ones. For new players - just use one of the links to the right to get either the jar or the exe version. You only need one or the other - not both. I recommend trying the jar first.For either version you'll need to have Java installed. A lot of programs use Java so you might well already have it. If the jar shows up as an unrecognised file type, then you probably don't. In that case you can get it from http://www.java.com/. The exe should tell you if you don't have the right version on your computer, but you'll still need to install java to run the game.There's a guide for new players here which includes some troubleshooting tips for installation & downloading.Here's the full changelog for 0.3.6:

Implemented
a change suggested by cubano where having a friend who lives near
you gives you a small chance of being with them when you’d
otherwise be mugged, and therefore avoiding attack. For now you’ll
have to take pot luck as to whether your friend lives in your area
as this isn’t shown anywhere – although if he’s tried to save
you from mugging before then you know he lives nearby. When the
Homes update gets added this will become more important and will
probably be easier to discover.

Fixed a bug
reported on a blog comment where an exception was being thrown if
you told someone you were pregnant while being single, they asked
you to become their girlfriend, and you refused.

Added a
check for heavily pregnant characters trying to climb the
watertower, as suggested by cubano.

Changed
the ‘pain and suffering’ action in the dance contest to test
against the Fitness skill instead of a flat success chance.

Following
a problem report by death25, modified the starting relationship
bonuses for npc traits so they couldn't push you all the way into
the second liking category.

A
new event chain that can fire once you've been promoted past the
starting job.